The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-09-09
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

the other morning. and caused a loss of
g, 500 by fire, besides burning himself TO
death.
Buffalo has a woman contractor. Her
name Is Mrs. a. NJ. Holloway and she has
just secured the contract for cleaning the
streets Of that city for five years by bid of
S4I7 600
An engineer on the Wabash Railway.
whose train has yet 10 meet with its first
accident, attributes his good luck to 8 cat
iha: has been bis constant: companion in
the cab for year
Mary Sloan. a red checked Irish gr7,
went on the Ansons 10 sell app4es when the
vessel was at Queenstown. Before she was
aware of it the ship bad started en- its way
tO'America and Mary IS here nov.
-Frank c. McNeii,y, Mains bank CLERK.
aged nineteen, who has abscoDced with
nearly $500 900 in cash and securities, Is the
youngest ''IOung NapoleoDE OF STANCE
that has yet been developed. He was a
deeply religious yong man.
According TO the latest authorities, the
Missouri river is not onIy the
longest IN name, but the longest in extent of
stream n the world, 80 miles. The 1ext
longest II The Nile, O90 miles-and the
next in o7der the Amazon and Congo.
Probably the biggest poke of oxen IN
the world are on exhibition at the Eastern
Maine Stase fair this week They were
raised in Vermont, and measure 10 feet IN
Girth and actually weigh 7, Oos pounds. e,
cost to raise them up to their great weighs
over 81, coo.
An old neCress living near Sunnyside.
Ga. has I've, ,:i5Idren, boy and a girl.
The girl she has named Il vii. arise and 20
10 my Father" but calls her II wiIler,"
TOR short. The BOYS name is "Dny begOt-
zen son, in whom am well pleased. "but he
= called Only" for short.
"A San Antonio, Tex, woman publishes
She following card in a local paper: Il
want the public 10 distinctly Understand
that my husband s no negro. My mother
was a creole French woman and my father
a Cherokee Indian, and my husbands 5
mother was a Comanche Indian and his
father German
A Hungarian at Enterprise, a small mi
nIng village near C.ceOla, ClearieiG county.
attempted to light his pipe the other day
vita dynamite cartridge, nd wonld pro
paCly have succeeds3 had rot the cartridge
suddenly embarked in the explosion busi-
ness. and blew of tbs thumb and two 5ngers
OF his right hand.
Mr.. Francis B-amley, of Cleveland,
owns hUrse which served through the en-
tire war of of the rebellion. lie has been
retired from active service, but occasionally
he goes to a soldiers reunion. He proudly
lifts his head at the cheers OF his OmpGBions
of the war. He prIcks up his ears at the
rattle Of a drum and tries TO prance a. the
sound Of the bugIe, and seems to enjoY the
occasion as much as any Of his twO-foOted
friends.
1t IS a curious fact, but true, that som
paratively few people @ho have horses or
cattle stolen are ever abie 10 describe them
accurately, even though they may have
been in the habit OF driving the horses
every day. 1t is this Inability to describe
property, that oftentimss prevents proper
steps being taken to recover the property
stolen. Though horses NAV have GOOD
marks on their limbs it is seldom that taeir
owners can tell what limbs they are on.
In a mill at OnotonOGon. Michigan, on
Saturday last, q misChievous workman
named Polk, placed a small garter snake
upon .hs shoulder of a fellow-w workman
named Hollis. The latter was busy. and
the reptile made the circoit OF his neck be
fore he met the flashing eyes and darting
tongue within two inches of his nose
With scream Hollis threw up his hands
and fell 20 the flOOor in a dead faint. lie is
now very low from the elects of the shock.
An attempt was made to wreck the
evening passenger train on ths Illinois Cen
trai Railway on last Saturday evening by
some T9iscreants who placed a tie across
the track at a point one half mile south OF
Chats worth, the scene OF the late disaster,
in a cut and on a curve. the Obstruct ion
was noticed by the engineer just as the en-
gine was about to strike it. The grade at
this point, being uphill and on a curve, en-
abled him TO stop the train in a short dis
tsEce, thereby preventing serious accident
The Secretary of she State Board of.
Agriculture of Illinois has received from
Professor Forbes, the State Entomolsgist,
a discenraging report in reference 20 the
distribution of the clinch bug throughout
the State. The Professor says: "It is
very dsstructiv in :hirty counties, occurs
in larEe numbers in sixteen others, in mod.
crate numbers in seventeen, and in nAmbers
not especially injurious, but sufficient ;o
threaten harm another year, in twenty-five,
white from thirteen oonn;Ies it is reported
as practically abse1t.''
The McHenry County jIlls) Agucul-
:uraI Board has Issued an announcement
/ to the effect that the offer to the couple
/ who would unite N holly wedlOck on the
! far grounds during the coming. fair has
! been (taken and the ceremony viii. take
! pace in the amchitheatTe on Wednesday
September 21. The county fair official:
have issued many notices, which read as
follows: "You are invited to, De present
and should you dssiIe to give tbs couple any
present, please notify the secretary what il
will be, that youE name may appear among
the donors to bs published.
Frederick sburg, Va, has a big pickle
factory that is Supplied with cucumbeTs from
the lands adjoining the city. This season
the supply has reached 30, 600. lOO cucumbers
those engaged in their production furnishing
from 200 OO3to ZOO. 900 each. An acre vii
produce 100, 500, and they sell in Fredericks
burn at 50 cents per !, ,OOO. The object is L
get them an inch or an inch and half long
and this requires active picking before tAe,
increase thIs size. 4 boy will pick 3,OCG II
day. Pie king them thus early increase
the prOductiVeness of the vine and, Will
the season lasts, Others are appearing il
place o. those taken from the vines.